Deepika Rao of Cividep India talks to the Institute for Human Rights and Business in this podcast on the living and working conditions of migrant workers in Bangalore’s garment industry, the numerous ways in which they are denied their rights and entitlements due to their vulnerabilities as outsiders in an alien city.
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We dwell into Cividep’s work in operationalizing labour rights and access to remedy and our association with Cardiff Business School, in a conversation with Dr. Jean Jenkins, a professor of the school.
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The #WhoCares? campaign, run by FEMNET, is aimed at European consumers and asks Who Cares for the children of seamstresses in India, for maternity rights and childcare, and companies’ due diligence towards their social responsibilities. Cividep, in partnership with FEMNET, has had a long-term engagement with research and documentation of the conditions of childcare and maternity rights in garment factories in Bangalore as well as capacity building with regards to their improvement.
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A study by Cividep India on occupational health hazards faced by garment worker women finds mentioned in this Indian Express article on the invisible majority fuelling India’s urban revolution – women who’re increasingly migrating to cities for work.
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Video proceedings of a round-table conference at the Universitat De Valencia, Faculty of Law where Cividep India spoke about working conditions in the Indian leather industry, as part of a larger campaign with academics, trade unions and civil society organizations in Europe.
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